Example sentences of "[vb pp] he [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She had then wished him good luck with the sale of his book and had quietly shut the door in his face .
2 His intense and unpredictable moods have earned him many enemies throughout the Empire .
3 Mattox 's campaign presented her silence on this subject as an expression of guilt , although the drugs issue backfired on him in the final days of the campaign when witnesses claimed to have seen him smoking marijuana in the early 1970s , a claim which he vehemently denied .
4 Hari recognized him at once , he was the friend of Edward Morris , she had seen him earlier sitting before the fire in the comfortable house on Chapel Street .
5 Speaking in a House of Commons debate on the Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment in 1955 , Chuter Ede declared that his time as Home Secretary had not persuaded him either way of the arguments for or against deterrence .
6 William Connors had briefed him many times in the past , yet Delaney even now , was unsure of just where Connors fitted into the scheme of things .
7 I 'd called him Chinless Wonder on the same basis that regular enlisted men in the Army call Sandhurst graduates ‘ Ruperts ’ .
8 But when he reached the place where the cart had been , which had brought him twenty miles from the nearest town , it had been stabled out of sight .
9 David Lodge , whose experience as novelist , critic , and professor of English has given him many insights into the situation I am describing , provides in his recent novel Nice Work , a neat instance of the gap between students and teacher .
10 After he 'd found the half-burned counterfoil slips from the railway tickets stuffed down the back of the apartment 's disused fireplace , his next move had been to return to his Militia post and report that an anonymous source had given him some information on the whereabouts of Alina Petrovna , escapee from the prison hospital and probable murderer of the psychiatrist Belov .
11 It is understood doctors have not given him any timescale for the progress of the cancer .
12 Evidence at the coroner 's court should have given him little confidence in the outcome , but events took an upward turn when Marion Lindo stepped into the witness box .
13 The check would have given him more control over the hammers and the freedom to play more powerfully than he had done in 1777 , without making the piano jangle .
14 Jimmy Carter 's limited experience in politics had not given him adequate preparation for the demands of the White House .
15 Well if he had X to the seventh that would have given him seven X to the sixth
16 There was a desultory air to the whole performance , and I knew that he was conscious of his mediocre first round , which had put him some way down the field .
17 Occhetto 's position on the Gulf war had meanwhile lost him some support among the social democratic wing of the party , led by Giorgio Napolitano .
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